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by knz 10y ago
> Overall, is there really an efficiency gain to be had here? Formally adopting the metric system would probably be a better use of the capital that it would take to convince the average person to adjust a point of reference. https:&#x2
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by knz 10y ago
I agree with your sentiment but this is hardly limited to Americans - I've read and heard many Europeans discuss avoiding American all together due to the perceived risk of gang shootings, mass shootings, terrorism, and run in's w
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by knz 10y ago
I fly it at least once a year and it's not THAT bad if you get an overnight flight. Europe to NZ is a much larger ordeal.
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by knz 10y ago
I'm also an expat kiwi (in the US) and definitely agree re the shift about 5-6 years ago. It's not just the house prices it's also the potential salary. Higher housing costs (and you get a lot less for that money in NZ) and l
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by knz 10y ago
I don't disagree but I do wonder what that would even look like. Do we need to change the system? The players/politicians? Groups exerting influence onto the system (the media, big business, big unions)? Push more decisions to the
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by knz 10y ago
I don't disagree but that is probably true of every country. Military engagement is always going to be driven by the foreign policy and objectives of a country.
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Likewise with genocide. There is a reason "we" get involved in some conflicts.
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by knz 10y ago
Thanks - I see it in there now. For anyone else looking for it, it's under options/conversation settings when you are in conversation view. Thanks again.
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by knz 10y ago
I don't mean to be negative about Signal. I appreciate the work they have put into it and understand that the platform is maturing - as you said, they can't please everyone. The chrome app vs tab is definitely a minor issue relate
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by knz 10y ago
I've given up on Signal (for now at least). Yes the encryption and privacy is great but without a decent desktop client it's hard to get others in my network to switch to it. Two things bothered me about the desktop application -
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by knz 10y ago
56 hours! Wow. My worst was 42 hours (with an 8 month old baby) going from the US to New Zealand via Australia. It included an unscheduled 10 hours in SYD due to Virgin Australia not understanding visa regulations for New Zealand. VA tried
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by knz 10y ago
I'm not sure I would have the goal of the "modern world" in mind if transported to a pristine planet! Millions of people want the technology but not the stress and pollution of the rat race. A small remote coastal settlement
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by knz 10y ago
Was glass and the tools needed to make a lens readily available to people then? Or would you nedd to time travel with substantial wealth?
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by knz 10y ago
I'm always amazed at how cynical HN can be on IoT. I work at a facility with tens of thousands of sensors that are critical to safely and efficiently running the operation. IoT is spilling into the residential sector because of how suc
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by knz 10y ago
A lot of parenting media talks about the importance of teaching your children that they will not always be successful, will encounter difficulty, and that they need to have flexible thinking etc. I have young kids can rarely ever run across
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by knz 10y ago
I think this is why the idea of teaching resiliency to children seems to have had a resurgence. It's hardly a new concept and I wonder if it's blowback from the stereotypes that are pushed onto millennials (coddled and entitled) a
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by knz 10y ago
https://www.google.com/keep/ is fantastic for reminders. It's integrated into Google Now (So "Ok Google, remind me to do x at y") and can do time or location based reminders. You can also share tasks.
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by knz 10y ago
This was on HN just a few days ago - http://timharford.com/2016/10/theres-magic-in-mess-why-you-s... The short version is use piles to sort and purge the piles regularly. The "good stuff" will rise to th
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by knz 10y ago
My initial reaction was the same but we already have people walking around wearing or carrying items with corporate branding (sports apparel, well known clothing brands, iPhones etc)
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by knz 10y ago
To save the click: "West Antarctica, or Lesser Antarctica, one of the two major regions of Antarctica, is the part of that continent that lies within the Western Hemisphere, and includes the Antarctic Peninsula. It is separated from Ea
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by knz 10y ago
I'm not sure the cost is in digging the actual hole. The costs for planning, permitting and litigation can be substantial.
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by knz 10y ago
I suspect there are numerous parents who would happily pay more for shorter long haul flights (especially considering that a 12 hour flight is often 20+ when you add in connecting flights and layovers).
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by knz 10y ago
> Supersonic aircraft projects have come and gone over the years. They usually dwindle away into oblivion. The international aviation market is probably the largest it has ever been and I believe the expectation is that it will continue
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by knz 10y ago
> Now that we have built the infrastructure How successful is the drug war? The recent headlines related to heroin seem to imply that it's been a failure. Before that there was a meth crisis and before that there was likely somethin
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by knz 10y ago
PostGIS. I'd messed with some of the ESRI server products and knew basic SQL but discovering PostGIS was a paradigm shift in terms of being able to easily and efficiently run more advanced spatial analysis in a database.
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by knz 10y ago
Could it be that smartwatches and google glass don't have suitable input methods yet? They're adequate for displaying information but not great for extensive input or manipulation of data. Most people also don't want yet anot
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As a reference for those that aren't familiar with the Antarctic ice sheet - the average thickness is ~ 2,100m and it contains ~ 60% of all the freshwater on earth. It's orders of magnitude thicker than most glaciers.
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by knz 10y ago
Google tells me that the average time on death row is ~15 years. I'm not sure the average criminal weighs the difference between life or 15 years when contemplating murder. I also believe that sentencing for crimes are compounded in th
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by knz 10y ago
I'm sure that carrier is being followed by multiple NATO submarines as well. It seems incredibly unlikely that a global war would start over Syria when we've had 60 years of proxy conflict instead. Russia or NATO have absolutely n
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by knz 10y ago
> Say Hello to World War III, everybody! Is this sabre rattling or the prelude to a global conflict? Surely at worst it will (continue to) be a proxy war between NATO and Russia in Syria and nothing more? What motive is there for Russia

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